The Penn's Grove record., 1887-09-17
NEWS OF THE w EEK

New YORK, on the 9Th, received a
telegram from Rev. Mr.. Danner, Of
New Brighton, Penna., requesting him,
If possible, to detain Mrs. Barnes, one
of 400 Mormons who arrived on the
steamer Wisconsin on the 7th, and
prevent her from going to Salt Lake
City. The request was made at the
instance of a daughter of Mrs. Barnes,
who lives In New Brighton. 1t is said
Mrs. Barnes, who IS accompanied by
her second husband, desires to go to
her daughter, but her husband will not
consent.
DIR. d. A. TAFT, of Philadelphia,
and Miss Minnie Buechle, of Potts
town, Pennsylvania, were to have been
married on the 9Th. DR.. TAFT aad a
number of bis friends arrived at Potts
town on the evening Of the 7th, and
found Miss Buechle i'll. She died on
the morning of the 9Th after an illness
of less than two days.
The Hotel Arlington, at Saeger-
town, Pennsylvania, erected last spring
at a cost of S25, 900, was destroyed by
fire on the morning of the 8th. The
guests, % in number, barely escaped,
1 sd lOllllLlEs 1hlIAAtulOs NdAIGI
at $1,000, was insured. A despatch
from Koehler, Michigan, says that
nearly every lumber camp in that part
of the State has been burned. On the
Sth a strip of country three miles wide
by ten long was burned over. On the
Sth a heavy storm scattered the fires
Full particulars of the fire at New
burgh, Ontario, on the 7tb, show that
nearly fifty families are left without
shelter; that not a business mar escaped
the conflagration, aud that only two
or three carried any insurance, ana
these only for small amounts.
Thomas Grove, Thomas Kelly and
another man named Walters were
buried alive on the evening of the 9th,
IN the new aQueduct at North Yon.
kers, New York, by a cavern Of earth.
They are under one hundred and
twenty feet of earth, and there is no
hope of resculDg them alive.
Twelve hundred sheep were
drowned a few days ago by a water.
spout ON Careless Creek, in Meagre
county, Montana,
The shops of the Chicago, st. Pau
and Milwaukee Railroad, at Yankton
Dakota, were burned on the evening o
the 9th. Loss, $50, 600, insured. Fire,
on the morning of the 9th, destroyed
the Roaring Springs blank Book Fac
tory building and a wagon factory, al
Roaring Springs, Pa. Several dwellings
were damaged. Loss. $35, 900. A fire
in Nashville, Tennessee, on tue morn
- Az nNh IAnrA1nA U1s,naYHN
Brothers dry goods store, causing o
loss of $50, 900, and damaged the ad-
joining hardware store of Macy u Co.
to the extent of several thousand dol
lars. A fire was raging on the 9th neal
| Meadow Lawn, about 10 miles from
Louisville, Kentucky, and many ACRES
of pine timber have been destroyed.
The farmers are obliged to stand idly |
by and see their possessions sweep
away ON the account of the scarcity OF
water, there being hardly enough
water for the stock on their places. |
The Ores extended for a distance OF
about three miles square. The Erie
Railroad station, Fulton & Boards |
grist mill, two dwellings, a store and a
blacksmith shop were burned at Wash.
ingtonvllle, New York, on the evening |
of the 9Th. Loss, $4,000.
Matthias L. Hermise shot himself
with suicidal intent in Newark, New
Jersey, on the morning of the 10th, |
because he was ~pecuniarily embar-
raised. He is not expected to recover
John Stetsop was struck with a hatchet
by Joseph Speir and dangerously, If not
fatally, injured, in a quarrel about |
drinks, at Summit, New Jersey, on the
evening of the Sth. at Schenectady, |
on the 9th, Frederick Knights, aged
35 years, shot and fatally wounded
Miss Ida Wallace, whom he met in a
restaurant. Knights wife died in tine
almshouse a few months ago, after
having separated from him on account
OF his intimacy with the WALLACE
woman. While drunk, on the Fh,
Richard Hanley, a laborer, 45 year,
old, living with his family in a tene-
ment house in New York, attacked
his wife and Mrs. Margaret CLAIR, a
visitor, and then set fire to the build
ing. The fire was extinguished, and,
during the attempt to arrest Hanley, |
he was shot in the wrist. Mrs. Han
ley's recovery is doubtful. Mrs.
Clair's wounds are not serious.
Jockey West, who was Injured Oh
the race track at Saratoga last month,
died on the 9th. Charles Ii. Kinser.
hoff, Of New York, As years of age,
Kockaway Railroad into Jamaica Bay
on the evening Of the Sth, and was
drowned. Farmer Lyman, a resident
OF the southern part of DoWner's
Grove township, Illinois, was gored to
death by a bull on the Sth. A des-
patch from Oswego, New York, says
Patrick L. Callahan, a member OF Com
pany G, 18th u, 5, Infantry, stationed
at Fort Ontario. was drowned in the
lake on the evening of the 6th, by the
upsetting Of a boat. Two others were
rescued by the life crew..
William Sunderland was crushed
TO death, and Thomas Laughlin fatally
injured, by a fall of coal at the Kohl
moor Colliery, at Shenandoah, Pa, on
the 10th. The bodies Of the three men
who were killed on the 9th IN New
York by the caying in of an eXcaya-
ton for the new aguedpet, were re-
covered on the 10th. They were
crushed in a horrible manner While
at work on a scaffold at st. Georges
Memorial Chapel, in New York, on
the 10th, Claus A. Peters. 20 years old, |
missed his footing and fell on "a pro.
jecting iron rod on a stairway below
aud was impaled, His injuries are
fatal, AS a hook and ladder truck on
its way to a fire in Syracuse, New
York, was crossing the West Shore
tracks neal Lighton's Lock, on the
morning of the 10th, it was struck by a
train and badly smashed. -Four of the
men riding on it were thrown of and
injured. three quite severely. Captain
John Grant, of the schooner Kate
Grant, of Saudusky, Ohio, was killed
on the 10th by having his skull crushed
by a handspike which flew back from
the wipdlass while the crew was rails.
ing the anchor. Patrick Stegall and
Frank Anderson were fatallyIinjHred by
a boiler explosion In anderson county,
South Carolina, on the 10th. Two
others were seriously injured.